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Riqui Puig in a warming with the Barça

XAVI HAS RULED HIM COMPLETELY

Riqui Puig prioritizes his future: The midfielder knows he has to leave Barça

Published:11/05/2022 - 23:15h

Updated:11/05/2022 - 23:15h

Three months after his 23rd birthday, Riqui Puig analyzes the options for his future. The midfielder knows that he does not count in Xavi Hernández's sports project for 2022-23, for which he will have to look for another team in the summer

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The main objective of Riqui Puig of face to the next season translates in a word: continuity. The one of Matadepera only has contested 15 parties in the 2021-22; you grieve 391 minutes on the lawn in spite of have not suffered any recent physical problem. The fault of minutes and of confidence by part of Xavi Hernández has been very evident, by which the plans of the midfield player have to aim to abandon the club of his life.

Riqui Expected that his luck changed with the arrival of the technician egarense to the bench of the Camp Nou, but the reality was totally distina. The player of 22 years has not attained colarse in the eleven neither in parties like the one of the Wednesday in front of the Celtic, where the absences and the accumulation of parties forced to the míster culé to make varied adjust in the diagram. Xavi sent him to the field after the rest in place of Ferran Torres, after a first grey part of the forward.

However, the opportunities have been really scarce for the canterano. The one who only was to title in two parties of LaLiga in all the season: on 4 December in front of the Betis (played 54 minutes in the defeat 0-1 in Camp Nou) and on 2 January in Sound Moix in front of the Mallorca (only complete party in the victory 0-1). In Glass of Rey was in the eleven in the dieciseisavos of final in front of the Linares (45 minutes in the triumph 1-2), day in which Xavi seemed to lose all his confidence in Puig.

With agreement until June of 2023, to the midfield player does not remain him another that leave of the Barça. The club is had to listen offers and, even, to give him letter of freedom if it does not produce any negotiation. With a value of 9 million euros in the web 'Transfermarkt', the fault of minutes has conditioned the market by the one of Matadepera, but still subtracts a lot of way by transitar and anything can suceder in summer.

The history repeated with Koeman

In the 2020-21, Riqui Puig only contested 24 parties, 581 minutes in where only it annotated a goal in LaLiga in front of the Elche. The history with Ronald Koeman like technical director repeated to the following year with Xavi. Even, with the one of Terrassa in the bench has played less than with the Dutch, adding a solo so much in front of Osasuna in the goleada 4-0. After two seasons, the luck of the canterano seems thrown. His future will be far of the Cam Nou.

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